{"id":478605,"date":"2026-02-14T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478605\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:42:07","slug":"source-d-backs-zac-gallen-reach-agreement-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478605\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: D-backs, Zac Gallen reach agreement on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> have agreed on a one-year deal to bring back starting pitcher Zac Gallen<\/a>, a source told ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

The deal, which is pending a physical, is worth $22.05 million, the same value as the qualifying offer Gallen rejected earlier this offseason, according to a source.<\/p>\n

The second half of a one-for-one prospect swap alongside Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. in the summer of 2019, Gallen jumped from the Miami Marlins<\/a> to the Arizona Diamondbacks and became one of the most successful pitchers in franchise history, ultimately ranking behind only Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb with 65 wins.<\/p>\n

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Gallen went 12-4 with a 2.51 ERA in 31 starts for the D-backs in 2022 and finished fifth in National League Cy Young Award voting, then went 17-9 with a 3.47 ERA in 210 innings in 2023 and finished third.<\/p>\n

Since then, though, his production fell off.<\/p>\n

Gallen, 30, missed about a month with a hamstring strain in 2024 but still managed to go 14-6 with a 3.65 ERA. This past season, his ERA jumped to a career-high 4.83 and his strikeout rate dropped to a career-low 21.5%. Opponents went from slugging .230 against his curveball in 2024 to .438 in 2025.<\/p>\n

The D-backs traded his longtime rotation mate, Mitch Keller<\/a>, before the trade deadline but opted to keep Gallen at least in part to later extend him the $22.025 million qualifying offer, which he declined by the Nov. 18 deadline. Because Gallen signed with a new team, Arizona will receive a compensatory draft pick after the first round.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed on a one-year deal to bring back starting pitcher Zac Gallen, a source…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-478605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}